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San Diego Padres right-hander Dylan Case scored a no-hit in seven innings to leave with apparent injuries in a final loss against the New York Yankees (box score) on Wednesday night. The broadcast managed to stop him from swinging his throwing arm, but after game manager Mike Schilt said he wasn’t too worried about what the training staff had diagnosed with convulsions.
“The training staff aren’t overly worried, there’s a bit of a cramp,” Schilt said, adding that the stop wants to continue pitching.
He delivered 6⅓ no-hit innings before giving up a game-tying home run to Cody Bellinger. He stayed in the game, hitting Anthony Volpe and worked on a 1-2 count before coming out mid-bat with Jackson Dominguez. The Padres then inserted reliever Jason Adam and closed the seventh and saved the tie.
The final line of the night saw him surrender only one run with one hit. Otherwise, he hit nine of the 24 batters he faced, while only issuing two walks on 89 pitches.
The impending free agent, the ceasefire took part in Wednesday’s contest, boasting a 5.61 ERA (74 ERA+) and a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 2.60 during his first seven starts. CBS Sports wrote more about the Cease struggle earlier this week. Here is part of our analysis:
The stop has some notable events happening under the hood. He lowers his arm angle and has more arm side movements on the 4-seamer. The pitch is usually more vertically oriented. Cease’s sweeper lacks the same depth as last season, and he’s clearly struggling to find his curveball that he wants, and he threw 45.8% of the offering for the strike (as opposed to over 56% in the past two years).
The Padres played in Wednesday night’s game, returning the half game for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West with a 23-12 record this year. The Padres already lacks starters Yu Darvish, Joe Musgrove and Matt Waldron.
